Ought Quotes

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.